Jurgen Haan staggered into the Black Sun and said: > bpazolli wrote: >> I am having problems with booting up into a really bright white >> screen then back to black. I select the boot option single user. Then >> I run startx and it goes to white screen. I have an Nvidia Geforce >> Go 6150. I have tried vesa and nv. I am now trying to install nvidia >> official drivers to see if that help. I am using debian 2.6.18 or >> something > Are you trying to run X with composite? If so, you might try to > disable it. A common occuring 'bug' is a texture problem that renders > the display totally white. Really? There are a few X options you have to set if you want to get compiz-fusion working properly with nVidia cards and the evil binary-only nVidia modules. However, Debian doesn't make compiz-fusion easily available, so I doubt that's the OP's problem. The options you put in the Device section are like so: # options for compiz-fusion in Device Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true" # And you also need Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "enable" EndSection > Though this should not happen with VESA, since vesa does not really > allow the composite extension to be loaded. This is something other than the composite extension. Kernel 2.6.18 sounds like Etch. Etch is a bit less current than many distros, and I've heard of problems with the Geforce Go NNNN series. Is this thing on a laptop? If so, what's the laptop's make and model#? -- ...many people in this group spent their school years taking pointless orders from morons and having their will to live crushed. And people say school doesn't prepare kids for the real world. --Rayner, in ASR Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see